Problem with RIS custom install

[heavyhorse]

Hi, I'm pretty new to RIS and ive sort of been learning from various tutorials. Ive managed to get it working whilst loging into adminstrator account then it auto creates pretty much everything. What im having trouble with is im trying to figure out a way i can just install windows2003server manually. But it seems if i do try to logon as another user and click Custom install it comes up with an error. Ideally i'd just like to have the option to install as if i was installing off a cd and manually config everything. Thanks for any advice and if there is any information you want from me let me know.

[mmarable]

RIS really wasn't meant to do that, if I understand what you're looking for.

You want to use RIS, but manually step through the install. Is that right?

Why do you want to do that? The point of RIS is to automatically install Windows and such with almost no user intervention.

If you have custom images with various apps installed (Office, etc.) and you just want to install Windows alone, you would select one of the flat images (or the flat image if you only have one.) They're at the end of the list of images (unless you've tweaked the folder names to organize them differently).

If you're looking to install Windows and manually set eveything then RIS isn't going to work for you. You would be better off doing either a CD install, or boot from a floppy to connect to a network share and install from there.

[heavyhorse]

Ive done it, i configured the sif file for my needs. The reason i wanted to do this because i need to manged about 15 windows 2003 severs i have access to these servers via kvm. I live about 200miles away from the servers, i was looking for an alternative to having to go up there/or asking remote hands to put a cd in all five of them when i had to install say about 5 servers. But now its great if i need to install a new server i can just do it over kvm without having to ask "remote hands" to put a cd in the required server.